Every year on November 19, the United Nations celebrates one of public health's greatest inventions – the toilet. Those who are fortunate enough to have access to one spend more than a year of their ...

Human urine is emerging as an unlikely climate solution, and a Swiss startup is betting that what we flush away could help feed crops and cut pollution at the same time. By turning this nutrient-rich ...

In the 17th-century, a German alchemist named Hennig Brandt was on a quest to find the “philosopher’s stone”, a mysterious object that could turn any ordinary metal into gold. When he realised the ...

Diverting urine away from municipal wastewater treatment plants and recycling the nutrient-rich liquid to make crop fertilizer would result in multiple environmental benefits when used at city scale, ...

Every year on 19 November, the United Nations celebrates one of public health’s greatest inventions – the toilet. Those who are fortunate enough to have access to one spend more than a year of their ...

A few previous life-cycle assessments have compared the environmental impacts of urine recycling to conventional systems. But the new U-M study is the first to include detailed modeling of wastewater ...

Every year on November 19, the United Nations celebrates one of public health's greatest inventions - the toilet. Those who are fortunate enough to have access to one spend more than a year of their ...